SimplyHired Scraper

Extract job listings from simplyhired.com at scale, in a clean, consistent structure ready for analysis, job boards, recruiting tools and market research. No API key required.

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Why this scraper?

🎯 Built for the United States

A dedicated US scraper, not a global tool with a country dropdown. Search, locations and currency (USD) are tuned for simplyhired.com.

📄 Complete job data

Full job title and description, direct listing URL and publish date for every record.

💶 Salary data

Salary information parsed from the listing where the employer publishes it, in USD. Missing salaries are returned as null, never guessed.

🏢 Company details

Hiring company name plus the profile details the source publishes, such as logo and company page.

📍 Location fields

Structured location data for every listing, ready for filtering and analysis.

🔁 Repost & change detection

Every record carries isRepost and changeStatus, so daily feeds return genuinely new jobs instead of reposted duplicates.

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQuery	string	"software engineer"	Keywords to search for jobs (e.g. 'software engineer', 'nurse', 'marketing manager'). Leave empty to browse all listings.
location	string	"New York, NY"	City, state, or ZIP code to filter results by location (e.g. 'New York, NY', 'Chicago, IL', '10001'). Leave empty for nationwide results.
jobType	string	(empty)	Filter by employment type. Leave empty for all types.
daysOld	integer	(empty)	Only return jobs posted within this many days. Accepted values: 1, 3, 7, 14, 30. Leave empty for all dates.
fetchDetails	boolean	false	When enabled, each job listing page is visited to retrieve the full job description and structured salary data. Disable for faster, lower-cost runs with list-level data only.
skipReposts	boolean	false	Skip job listings already seen in previous runs. Uses a 90-day fingerprint cache stored per actor instance.
startUrls	array	(empty)	Provide a list of specific SimplyHired job URLs to scrape directly, bypassing the search interface. Useful for targeted extraction of known listings.
maxItems	integer	50	Maximum number of job listings to return. Controls spend — use this to cap your run cost.

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Output schema

Every field below is present on every record. Fields the source does not publish for a given job are returned as null rather than omitted.

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Unique listing ID from the source.
url	string	Direct link to the listing
title	string	Job title
company	string	Hiring company name
location	string	Location as displayed
city	string	City of the position.
country	string	Country of the position.
salaryMin	string	Minimum salary (null if not published by the employer).
salaryMax	string	Maximum salary (null if not published by the employer).
salaryCurrency	string	Currency code of the salary.
workType	string	Work arrangement as published.
companyRating	number	Company rating.
descriptionHtml	string	Full job description in HTML.
descriptionText	string	Full job description in plain text.
descriptionMarkdown	string	Description markdown.
publishDate	string	Date posted as displayed
publishDateISO	number	Publish date iso.
isRepost	boolean	true if seen in a previous run
originalPublishDate	string	Original publish date.
originalUrl	string	Original url.
source	string	Source.
scrapedAt	string	Timestamp when this record was scraped.
contentHash	string	Stable hash of the listing content, used for repost and change detection.

Example record

{
  "id": "Q_W9IsiM6wGX_2EF0Yky7Y6KdbT94_foEZYTd6g6BJ4gxK316BWcmg",
  "url": "https://www.simplyhired.com/job/Q_W9IsiM6wGX_2EF0Yky7Y6KdbT94_foEZYTd6g6BJ4gxK316BWcmg",
  "title": "Backend Software Engineer - AI Trainer",
  "company": "DataAnnotation",
  "location": "Englewood Cliffs, NJ",
  "city": null,
  "country": "US",
  "salaryMin": null,
  "salaryMax": null,
  "salaryCurrency": null,
  "workType": "Part-time, Full-time, Contract",
  "companyRating": 4.1,
  "descriptionHtml": null,
  "descriptionText": null,
  "descriptionMarkdown": null,
  "publishDate": "1781198059",
  "publishDateISO": 1781198059322,
  "isRepost": false,
  "originalPublishDate": null,
  "originalUrl": null,
  "source": "simplyhired.com",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-26T14:14:10.246Z",
  "contentHash": "07597402194ba664"
}

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Examples

Search for warehouse associate roles in Dallas, TX:

{
  "searchQuery": "warehouse associate",
  "location": "Dallas, TX",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Filter by contract type:

{
  "searchQuery": "warehouse associate",
  "location": "Dallas, TX",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "jobType": ""
}

Scrape a specific search URL:

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.simplyhired.com/"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 200
}

Daily feed (run on a schedule):

{
  "searchQuery": "warehouse associate",
  "daysOld": 1,
  "skipReposts": true,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Schedule this input to run once a day in the Apify Scheduler — each run returns only jobs posted in the last 24 hours.

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💰 Pricing

$1.99 per 1,000 results — you only pay for successfully retrieved listings. Failed retries are never charged.

Results	Cost
100	~$0.20
1,000	~$1.99
10,000	~$19.90
100,000	~$199

Flat-rate alternatives typically charge $29–$49/month regardless of usage.

Subscription tiers lower the rate further, down to $1.19 per 1,000 at the highest tier. Use the Max results cap in the input to control your spend exactly.

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Performance

Run size	Typical time
100 results	under 1 minute
1,000 results	2–4 minutes
10,000 results	20–35 minutes

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Known limitations

• Salary is only returned when the employer publishes it — many listings carry null salary fields.
• Company details vary per listing; the scraper returns what the source publishes and never invents data.
• Very large result sets are bounded by the source's own paging limits.
• Listings can be removed by the source at any time, so a small share of URLs may expire shortly after scraping.

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Technical details

• Source: simplyhired.com — the United States job listings
• Coverage: everything the public search exposes, filterable via the input parameters above
• Retry: automatic retry on network errors with exponential backoff

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